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unusual facts about 1877


Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877

:5 Murrumbidgee MLA William Forster resigned to accept the position of assistant to the Agent-General Charles Cowper in February 1876.


Augusto Giacometti

Augusto Giacometti (August 16, 1877 – June 9, 1947) was a Swiss painter from Stampa, Graubünden, cousin of Giovanni Giacometti who was the father of Alberto, Diego and Bruno Giacometti.

Bacot

Jacques Bacot (1877–1965), explorer and pioneering French Tibetologist

Benjamin Farjeon

Farjeon married Margaret Jane "Maggie" Jefferson, daughter of the American actor Joseph Jefferson, on 6 June 1877.

Bolivia–Chile relations

Bolivia subsequently became dissatisfied at the arrangement due to the negative financial status of the national budget, especially after the earthquakes that struck Cobija in 1868 and 1877, the only small coastal town originally founded by Bolivians.

Brancker

Sefton Brancker (1877–1930), Royal Air Force air marshal and British Army general

Browning Society

The earliest Browning Society, and the longest continuing, was formally constituted in 1877 by Hiram Corson at Cornell University.

Carroll Parish, Louisiana

It was divided in 1877 into East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish.

Croswell, Michigan

In 1877 it was renamed Croswell, in honor of Governor Charles Croswell.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

In 1877, at the request of President Rutherford B. Hayes, he made a careful study of the British civil service, and three years later published Civil Service in Great Britain.

Eugène Arnaudeau

In 1877 Arnaudeau was Conservative candidate in the senatorial by-election for Vienne that followed the death of Louis Olivier Bourbeau, former Minister of Education.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Felix and Adauctus

According to the "Chronicle of Andechs" (Donauwörth, 1877, p. 69), Henry, the last count, received the relics from Pope Honorius III and brought them to the Abbey of Andechs.

Frank Perkins Whitman

He was graduated at Brown University in 1874 and took his A.M. there in 1877, later studying at Johns Hopkins University.

George Willard

He was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 3rd congressional district to the 43rd and 44th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877.

Gerald Rusgrove Mills

Gerald Rusgrove Mills was born on 3 January 1877 in Stourbridge as the eldest son of Harry Mills, a solicitor.

Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo

In May 1877, she gave birth to Rhinelander Waldo, a future Fire and Police Commissioner of New York.

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini (b. Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. Noventa Padovana, 26 June 1877) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Harper Ward, Utah

Previously known as Call's Fort (1855–1906), it was renamed Harper Ward in 1906 in honor of Thomas Harper, who served as LDS branch president (1866–1877) and later as the first LDS bishop (1877–1899) in the area.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Hugh Crichton-Miller

Hugh Crichton-Miller (1877–1959) was a Scottish psychiatrist and founder of the Tavistock Clinic in London.

Jean Armand Isidore Pancher

In 1877, he died in New Caledonia in an area between La Foa and Moindou.

John Bailey Langhorne

He died aged 60 on May 17, 1877 at Outwood Hall, near Wakefield where he was described as being the District Registrar of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

John Christian Schultz

Outside of politics, Schultz, Henry Septimus Beddome, Curtis James Bird and others were the founders of the Medical Health Board of Manitoba which was incorporated in 1871 and became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba in 1877.

John Ellsworth Weis

At 14 years of age, he enrolled in night classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the faculty of which included Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969), Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), and Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).

John Kirkland Clark

(January 21, 1877 - January 20, 1963) was a New York City assistant district attorney under Charles S. Whitman, the New York County District Attorney.

John Saxe

John Godfrey Saxe II (1877–1953), lawyer and member of the New York State Senate

John Trivett Nettleship

He married in 1876 Ada, daughter of James Hinton; she survived him with three daughters, the eldest of whom was Ida (1877-1907) who married the artist Augustus John.

Juan Cortina

Juan Cortina and the Texas-Mexico frontier (1859–1877), by Jerry D. Thompson, Southwestern Studies, 1994 (ISBN 0-87404-195-3).

Lucy Webb Hayes

As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.

Martin Krippner

He was chairman of the Puhoi Highway District Board in 1874, and in 1877 and 1878 served on the Rodney County Council.

Matthew Henry Davies

They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.

Molteno Dam

Still in service, it was established in 1877 and is now located in the suburb of Oranjezicht, Cape Town.

Nottingham Conference Centre

The Centre’s three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent Yorkshire architectural practice founded by Henry Francis Lockwood.

Rafflesia kerrii

The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr (1877–1942), the first botanist to collect plants extensively in Thailand.

Red Kleinow

John Peter Kleinow (July 20, 1877 – October 9, 1929) was a reserve catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1904 through 1911 for the New York Highlanders (1904–10), Boston Red Sox (1910–11) and Philadelphia Phillies (1911).

Robert H. M. Davidson

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1891).

Saul Samuel

Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.

Šechtl

Josef Jindřich Šechtl (1877–1954), Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Charles Henry (1797–1877), Royal Navy officer; he married Jane Henrietta, daughter of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, and they had six children, of whom the second was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Sultan Muhammad Shah

Sultan Muhammed Shah Aga Khan III (1877–1957), 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community

Symington family

James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877–1952), New York Assemblyman 1905–1910, U.S. Senator from New York 1915–1927, U.S. Representative from New York 1933–1951.

Tēvita ʻUnga

(3 August 1854 – 11 March 1885), served as Governor of Haʻapai and Vavaʻu from 1877 to 1885.

The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics

However, they did not succeed, but a subcommittee consisting of Davind Newman (a Pathological Chemist to the Western Infirmary) Joseph Coates (Pathologist to the Western Infirmary) and Professor McKendrik (Physiologist at Glasgow University) became known as the Glasgow Committee and began work in 1877.

Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques

and the repertoire developed more in the field of operetta, La fille de Madame Angot by Charles Lecocq in 1873, Les cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette in 1877, Madame Favart, by Jacques Offenbach in 1878, La fille du tambour-major by Offenbach in 1879, La fauvette du temple by André Messager in 1885 and La Béarnaise by Messager in 1887 being among the premieres seen at the theatre.

Thomas Bourchier

Claud Thomas Bourchier (1831–1877), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

Thomas George Roddick

Earlier in 1877, Roddick traveled to Edinburgh to witness Joseph Lister's medical antiseptic system.

Thomas R. Cobb

Cobb was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

Vernay

Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877–1960), American antique collector, hunter and explorer


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